KRAB-containing zinc-finger repressor proteins

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Urrutia, Raul ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR KRAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 9Q; DNA BINDING; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346274978     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-10-231     Document Type: Review

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